A system shock ensued when clashing the grand vertical city of South America. From the hotel room window alone. The the corner near the hat store with the ancient proprietor that despite its sign for 12h00 always had a note tacked on for 12h30 till 13h00 with no one in sight. Across the street, the corner served coffee, fritters and fruit juices, served everywhere, drinking as if syncing with the embracing air. On the flip we wondered what could be lighter then a Pepsi Light Plus.
We started a bit too early. It did not get really dark until about 21h30. People who arrived on time were advised to get dinner. We were really grateful when they came back and put on our little show.
We did one round of Turret & Snout. Tinet’s drawings were all good. For me animation was still a bit dodgy but overall satisfactory. After we finished the story we took a break and let the audience try out the TagTool. This is equally satisfying to do as is performing. Sort of a demystifying process.
The crowd thinned out a bit but those that stayed demanded more so we did an improve set. This was fun because it was less constrained and allowed us to explore some more ideas on how to use the TagTool.
In attendance was Andreas Dzialocha who is a jazz musician (bass guitar) and TagTool enthusiast who attended the Chink Chank, a meeting that takes place at OMA international, home of the TagTool. They get together to discuss the future of live drawing. He partakes in an event here in Berlin that I did not know about where people get together and improv with music and live drawing. He really enjoyed our work and was interested in getting together.
The photos were generously taken by Hermano Silva using my camera. He and his partner were also very curious about the TagTool.
While there were not a lot of people the energy was good and Dida, who runs F.I.T. was very enthusiastic about hosting a series of nights next summer.
A recent trip to Leipzig to see a minimal contribution to the Last Match exhibition that traveled there. Unfortunately, we think due to the football game, the gallery was closed by 15h00, despite the website stating otherwise.
Tinet’s B part plan was to visit the now abandoned Drukerei.
At first we thought we could not get in. Both doors in front locked with chain asmile, our mouths in the exact reverse at our B plan athwart, we found a low wall.
And that was not the only thing within…
Urban Art Forms was positively one of the most thrilling VJ experiences to date. 2nd only to mixing with Venetian Snares at Electron Festival. Thanks to Okinawa 69 for the image.
About a month ago my friend Adi proposed that we make a short form piece with her friend Alice in her extended family inheritance Chateau in Switzerland. The basic outline was that Alice would be a ghost killer. After she sent me the first rough draft we started to evolve the plot a little and landed on a marble obsessed ghost that would be played by me. We shot the whole thing in less then two days.
It was all very energizing and inspiring. Only three of us, a camera, audio recorder and gorilla pod.
After the weekend we all met up together again in Berlin and met with our editing and sound person, Jenine. She knocked out a rough cut for us, practically over night. Her work revealed some structural problems with the ending. So we got the camera and shot new material. Budget? What budget?
The project is now in the loving hands of Jenine.
